But I would send one. The “poor man’s Randy Winn” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. I kinda want DJ to go to a contender just so we can shut up those Kansas Citians that keep insisting DJ is “just a fourth OF for most contenders.”

I’m shocked that such an insightful and well-argued piece comes from a sports radio guy.

no he doesnt put up league leading eye-popping numbers in any category. But he does EVERYTHING well (cept get picked off too much).

He is the kind of player championship teams are build from, not around.

Keep him

what he is talking about. Petro is on right now talking about how DDJ is worth at least one major league ready guy that can contribute soon and that if the Royals can’t get that or a couple decent prospects, they shouldn’t do it. That at least sounds intelligent. The stories those guys write for the website are ridiculous.

and that’s only the first thing wrong here. As other people have said, this “DDJ is a 4th outfielder on a good team” is so widespread among the morons who to sports talk radio that, well, you’d think they were in sports talk radio.

Hey, at least it isn’t their job to know something about sports.

This guy’s obviously a stathead who has well-documented his opinion with important stats like HR and SB. This guy’s clearly cutting edge.

It’s really hard to listen to any of these guys.

This is kind of akin to a message board post. Who cares?

For statistical evidence to back up my subjective observation that DDJ is hitting the ball harder this year than ever before. Google led me to this:

.362 – David DeJesus
Hitting a robust .325, Double-D has never batted better than .307 in a season and owns a career .289 mark. Why the increase in his average this season? I hesitate to use the word “luck” or “lucky,” but it seems like there might be some of that going on. DeJesus has a “normal” line drive rate of 20.2 percent (career 20.9) which really doesn’t support a .041 point increase in his hit rate versus his career mark. He did post a .335 BABIP mark in 2008, but that season he also had a line drive rate of 24.7 percent. Sell high perhaps?

http://www.rototimes.com/article/2010/6/BABIP-Skill-vs-Luck-Hitters—2

My question is how does any “luck” stat account for hard hit ground balls and hard hit drives that go high enough to be called fly balls. DDJ is rocketing grounders through the IF with regularity, and he has had a ton of drives run down in the gaps. He’s also pinned OF’s to the wall for outs numerous times.

My point is, what he seems not to be doing is hitting weak grounders and popping up very often. I have nothing but my eyes to back this up, but I think this at least in part accounts for his high BABIP this year.

I heard u loud and clear…but if I was a championship team I WOULD trade 2 prospects for DeJesus just because I could…its kind of like when the Yankees forked out 10mil for Raul Mondesi just because they needed a guy that would hit 20hrs…not a lot of teams can do that…if I am a championship caliber team I am not worried about losing 2 prospect for a 3rd or 4th OF on the cheap that could fill a gap in case of injury or just be there as a solid veteran with good defense…I am not a DeJesus fan, but on a top notch team he makes a lot of sense, because he can play everywhere in the OF and a solid bat…imagine a team with DeJesus in the 7 hole and not 3 hole